LABOR: River Rouge Riot

Said Henry
Ford fortnight ago: "We're going to risk everything we've got to
create useful work for just as many people as possible." At that time
70,000 men were working at the Ford Dearborn factory. Last week 1,300
who did not work there, but wanted to, gathered on a Detroit street
corner. Quietly they began marching to the River Rouge plant to ask for
jobs. At the Dearborn city line their number had doubled, their
quietude had yielded to aggressiveness. Fifty Dearborn police tried to
turn them back. Out from the mob...